Krystle M.

Skills

Project management, accessible digital and print design, user research and user interface (UX/UI) design, special education, educational, instructional, and assistive technologies, grant writing, content development, curriculum design, public speaking, Microsoft products, Google products, Canva, Adobe, artificial intelligence (AI) and prompt generation, NVIVO qualitative data analysis, descriptive statistics, Qualtrics, survey development, project evaluation.

About

Dr. Krystle Merry is an early-career faculty member and lecturer in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development’s Special Education program. Krystle has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Special Education Transition from the University of Arkansas and achieved her doctorate as an Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Leaders for Transition scholar.

Prior to joining the University of Maine she was an instructor to preservice special education teachers at the University of Arkansas, qualitative research intern at the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in the Center for Inclusive Technology and Education Systems (CITES), and intern as an accessibility support specialist at the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Prior to working in higher education, she obtained her National Board Certification as an Exceptional Needs Specialist in 2018 and worked in for 11 years in the secondary and middle level general and special education mathematics classroom.

In addition to her practitioner experience, she continues to build her research on inclusive instructional practices and transition programming in the online or virtual school environment, technology and transition integrations for twice-exceptional students, digital accessibility instruction, and digital community resource mapping.

Krystle currently serves on the editorial board for the National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals (JAASEP), and Special Education Research, Policy, and Practice (SERPP) in addition to reviewing for TEACHING Exceptional Children (TEC), Journal of Special Education Technology (JSET), Exceptional Children, and Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals (CDTEI).